ENERGY FROM THE SEA, AN ALTERNATIVE TO GLOBAL WARMING

Abstract

The global consumption of renewable energy sources barely exceeds 2.5%, due to the need for efficient technologies for their use, which do not exist or are in various stages of development; the unfair competition of fossil fuels, whose prices do not include the value of the environmental damage caused when they are consumed; the habits established for more than two centuries, in which fossil carriers and in particular liquid fuels have been used increasingly; wasteful lifestyles and the discriminatory treatment traditionally given to renewable sources as “alternative”, “other”, together with their dispersed or distributed nature, their greater energy density and the poor understanding of the meaning of their renewability.

The country is working on a technological feasibility study and the natural potential that Cuba presents for the use of this energy alternative that is ocean energy. This proposal is aimed at several fronts for the use of this type of energy for the generation of electricity, developing technologies that allow electricity to be obtained from the use of the temperature gradient that exists in the oceanic waters near our coasts, the variation in the level of sea produced by tides and waves, the energy of the impact of waves on our coasts, the stable ocean currents that circulate around our country and the intense tidal currents that are generated in the channels and passages of different Bays in our Platform.